Means for handling freight in storage-buildings.



E. W. TAYLOR. MEANS FOR HANDLING FREIGHT IN STORAGE BUILDINGS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1911. 1 ,OO8,21 8.

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v E. w. TAYLOR; MEANS FOR HANDLING FREIGHT IN STORAGE BUILDINGS.

- APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1911. 1,008,2 1 8' I Patnted Nov. 7, 1911.

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APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1911. 1,008,218,

Patented Nov. 7, 1911.

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Inventor By 1| lrwnm IF J P Attorngy ERNEST W. TAYLOR, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIG-NOR TO MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

THE BROWN HOISTING- MEANS FOR HANDLING FREIGHT IN STORAGE-BUILDINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent. i Application filed August a, 1911. Serial No. 642,209. I

Patented Nov. '7, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST W. TAYLoR, a citizen of the United States,

' Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and the structure, without regard to'the particular number or height of the same from the under side of. the floor,

the point, or, story, at which the freight enters or is carried away from the biiilding.

The arrangement involves a permanent warehouse structure of two or more stories or floors, an overhead tramway system tributary thereto that essentially includes, as a.

part'of the same, segmentaltracks within trolley-hoisting elevators, and cranes that .are adapted to travel throughout said. tracksystem and when desired, be brought there by into position to operate through the elevator shaft that extends between the several floors.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a cr0ss-sec-' tiona'l view of a warehouse arranged to handle freight according to the ideas hereinafter expla' ed, the view being taken in the direction 0? line w ,w in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a broken sectional plan view on the-line w w of Fig. 1 in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 3-is a like view on the line 3/ 3 in Fig. 1. 4 is such a view,

on the line .2 a in Fig. 1. Fig. 5

is a side view of an elevator used in the sys-' term with segmental sections of r'ails transversely within the same at the top, and at and Fig. 6 is an end view thereof.

A represents said warehouse, vwhich is located close to and along the dock-front in convenient relation thereto to receive and discharge cargoes. The building is divided into three stories, numbered 1, 2,.and 3, by the floors f, which, in a particular adaption of the invention, above the first or ground floor, should be of the same height,

residing at respect to a storagebuildingv of largev oapacit tem shall readily serve the several floors of the arrow through the dotted and equidistant from each other. At the front, or dock-side of the wareh0use,'extending downwardly from the floor f above, are open spaces or doorways d and al through which freight may be introduced or carried away, and, projecting respectively from 'said doorways near the top .of the same, are hinged cantalivers or aprons E and Eflsuitably connected to the, buildingand to actuating mechanism and power, to be raised and lowered, as occasion demands, above the vessels the apparatus in question is to serve, and to be retracted in an upright position to or within the dock: front, when the apparatus is idle. At the slde of the warehouse opposite to said doorways, and extending through the several floors to the top, is an elevator shaft S pro vided with a freight-car or lift L. 'The car is adapted to admit conveyors and loads to enter or leave at the sides, and, is shown as of. the same height as the distance between the tops of any two adjoining stories.

An'overhead service-track or tramrail T .is suspended within the entrance story 1, to

and beneath the supports of the floor f of the, next story above. Said track is preferably an I beam from and upon whose lower flanges the trolley 01' freight-carrier is to be. suspended and run. It extends from the inner end of the apron E, at the doorway d,

around the interior of story 1, and at a suit- 'able distance therefrom to have its circuit interrupted by the hatchways of the ele vator-shaft S.' In alinement with this track at its terminals at the doorways d and al corresponding extension'tracks z, and t are hung beneath and from one end to the other of the aprons E and E and, cross-wise of the elevator car L, through the upper part of its interior, a segmental or traverse-piece or track G, corresponding in character with the track T, is located. A similartraversepiece G is aflixed in the same relative location, to and beneath said car, and, at or near the ceiling of the remaining stories 2 and 3., tramrails T and T of the same design and relative location as T extend respectively from the opposite sides of the elevators hatchways s and 8 continuously around said floors. For the purpose oftraversing these several tramrail-circuits and said extensions and carrying freight along the same, one 'or more electric mantrol leys C, may be suspended by their switches or sidings W Wfiagain leadoff v wheels from vthe flanges thereof, in the usual manner, and, their loads being hoisted for instancefrom a barge beneath the extensions E and E the same may be quickly carried into and around to any point for lowering beneath the overhead track T.-

Should but one trolley be used on the track, the entire cycle may be made without pause by simply bringing the elevator-car L into such position that either the upper or the I lower of the traverse-pieces G or Gr is in alinement with said track T, and bridges over, for the time being, the portion thereof interrupted by the hatchway s. 15

Should it be desired, however, to lace or obtain a load at any point within th in the stories above, the trolley being thus run on to the lift L may, instead, be elevated thereby untilthe segmental piece G or G from which it hangs, registers or is in alinement with the tramrail T Fr T as the case may be, that serves the desired floor, whereupon the trolley may be instantly run off along the track to its destina- The reverse or return movement of tion. the trolley, either with or without a load, .is of course similarly made.

When the elevator is held midway between any two floors it is manifest that the segmental-pieces G and G will each be in alinement with a service-rail, and the trolley-circuits in the two stories be then uninterrupted throughout their length.

-A series of switches or siding W, W, (Fig. 4) may lead oil? from the main-service tracks at definite intervals, and secondary or suba the location and number of their tracks upon which the cranes travel will, of course,

be determined, with relation to the mainservice tracks, by taking into account the radial capacity of the cranes themselves,

' and that capacity will be limited by the clearance the boom is to have from posts, archways or other interference 0r fixed structures in the range of its use. When cranes are thus arranged in connection with the trolley and elevator system described, it is manifest that those systems will so coordinate with said cranes that hoisting and lowering through the shaft of the elevator may be carried on at times as a subordinate e runway system- 'ipoaeie function and result of the general arrangement referred to. i

Although in illustrating my invention I show an elevator car or freight lift as the movable support of the essential segmental pieces G and G it is plain that the'syste'm could be put into practice without such a car, inasmuch as the place of the same could be supplied by a mereplatform or framework whose chief or only function would be to hold said pieceslin their transverse relation' to the shaft and enable them to be aised and lowered therein.

"What I claim and wish to secure by Letters-Patent is J 1. In a warehouse, or similar structure, having a series of storage-floors, the combination of a tramrail-circuit above said. floors, a trolley movably suspended from said tramrail, an elevator-shaft extending through said floors intermediately of and interrupting said circuits at such points, a segmental tramrail suitably arranged within said shaft to be. brought into alinement with said tramrail across said shaft, and allow the trolley to run on to the same, together with suitable means for raising and lowering said segmental tramrail within said shaft when said trolley is thereon, as aforesaid, substantially as shown and described. 2. In a warehouse, or similar structure, having a series of storage floors, the combination of an overhead trolley-system above said floors, an elevator-system passing through the same, and interrupting the tramrail circuit of said trolley-system at such points, the car of said elevator-system being open at the sides and having a transverse segmental rail suitably arranged to be brought into alinement with and bridge over the interrupted portion of said circuit at said points when said car is moved within the elevator-shaft fpr the purpose, substantially as shown and described.

8. The combination, with a warehouse or similar structure, having twoeor more stories, of a tramway-system comprising an overhead service-rail extending throughout said floors, a trolley-carrier movably suspended therefrom, an elevator system, extending through said floors and interrupting said service-rail-at' said floors and having an overheadsegmental-rail transversely of its car and suitably located to fit in the interrupted spaces in said service-rail and register therein with said rail when said car is moved vertically to a position between any twoiafioors of said structure for the purpose, together with an extension apron at an entrance or door-space in said structure, provlded for the purpose, with a continuation thereon of said service-rail, substantially as shown and described.

4. In combination, a storagebuilding, comprising two or more floors, having an opening for the admission'of freight in the side thereof, hatchways in vertical alinement With'eaoh other in said floors, overhead tramrails, extending around and above said floors to opposite sides of said hatch- Ways, a segmental tramrail suitably arranged Within said building to be raised or lowered to a position cross-wise of said hatohways between said terminals of said overhead tramrails at said sides, an apron Copies of this patent may be obtained for &

carrying an extension of said tramrail at said openings, a trolley mounted thereon,

and means for raising and lowering said segmental-piece, as aforesaid, and for traversing said trolley on said tramrails, s ubstantial1y=as shown and described.

ERNEST W. TAYLOR. In presence of- L. P. Lrrrs, G. W. SP LLMANJ five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

